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Augusta Margaret <I>Gruemmer</I> Petersen

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Augusta Margaret Gruemmer Petersen

Birth
Cedar County, Iowa, USA
Death
10 Feb 1988 (aged 92)
Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Durant, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Range 11 Lot 18 Grave 4
Memorial ID
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Augusta M. Petersen, 92, formally of Durant, died Wednesday, February 10, 1988, at the Bethesda Care Center in Muscatine.

Visitation will be 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, February 11, at the Lacock Funeral Home in Durant. Memorials may be made to the Bethesda Care Center in her memory.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Friday, February 12, at the Lacock Funeral Home in Durant, with Rev. Leland Eyres officiating. Pallbearers are Emil Reese, Fred Gruemmer, Lester Maxwell and Reynold Dahms. Burial will be in the Durant Cemetery, Durant, Iowa.

Augusta Margaret Gruemmer was born September 11, 1895, in Cedar County, the daughter of Gustav and Mary (Thede) Gruemmer. She received her education in the Cedar County schools. She married Harry William Petersen on September 10, 1919, in Muscatine. The couple farmed near Durant, until they retired. Harry preceded her in death on December 6, 1981. She was employed as a dental assistant for Dr. Teasdale in Wilton, until she retired.

She is survivied by seveal nieces and nephews and one brother-in-law, Reynold Dahms of Muscatine.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son in infancy, one sister, Dorothy Dahms and five brothers, Walter, Clarence and Orvan Gruemmer and two brothers in infancy.

Wilton Advocate News, Feb 18, 1988
Augusta M. Petersen, 92, formally of Durant, died Wednesday, February 10, 1988, at the Bethesda Care Center in Muscatine.

Visitation will be 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, February 11, at the Lacock Funeral Home in Durant. Memorials may be made to the Bethesda Care Center in her memory.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Friday, February 12, at the Lacock Funeral Home in Durant, with Rev. Leland Eyres officiating. Pallbearers are Emil Reese, Fred Gruemmer, Lester Maxwell and Reynold Dahms. Burial will be in the Durant Cemetery, Durant, Iowa.

Augusta Margaret Gruemmer was born September 11, 1895, in Cedar County, the daughter of Gustav and Mary (Thede) Gruemmer. She received her education in the Cedar County schools. She married Harry William Petersen on September 10, 1919, in Muscatine. The couple farmed near Durant, until they retired. Harry preceded her in death on December 6, 1981. She was employed as a dental assistant for Dr. Teasdale in Wilton, until she retired.

She is survivied by seveal nieces and nephews and one brother-in-law, Reynold Dahms of Muscatine.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son in infancy, one sister, Dorothy Dahms and five brothers, Walter, Clarence and Orvan Gruemmer and two brothers in infancy.

Wilton Advocate News, Feb 18, 1988


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